• Om Birla pays floral tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru.
• Mallikarjun Kharge and MPs attend the ceremony.
• Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretaries-General also pay tributes.
• Nehru’s portrait was unveiled on May 5, 1966, by Dr S. Radhakrishnan.

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 14th Nov: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid floral tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary at the former Prime Minister’s portrait in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan on Saturday.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Members of Parliament and former MPs also paid floral tributes on the occasion.

Lok Sabha Secretary-General Utpal Kumar Singh and Rajya Sabha Secretary-General P.C. Mody were among the senior parliamentary officials present at the ceremony.

The portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru was unveiled by the then President of India, Dr S. Radhakrishnan, on May 5, 1966, in the Central Hall of the then Parliament House, now known as Samvidhan Sadan.

The annual tribute marked the birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister.